Ramal Walter (10 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. An ex library book but still a little beauty of a book. Gilt decoration on spine, Blind stamp impression of a ship on cover. Dark green boards. Richard Doyle Illustration with protective tissue. Glue marks on the back board. Ex-library copy but minimal markings.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. First edition, a clean unmarked copy in publisher's decorated cloth, the joints have been neatly repaired, end papers toned.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 202 pages. Blue cloth with gilt decorations on spine; top edges gilt. Cloth worn on corners and top and toe of spine; front cover faded; endpapers aged.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. New impression. Frontispiece with tissue guard by Richard Doyle. Dark blue cloth, gilt titles and ornate ship illustration to spine. Condition: Very good. Spine beautifully crisp and vibrant, just a tiny bit of shelfware to head and foot of apine, this is a most attractive little book. Inscription dated 1924 to ffep. Browning to endpapers. Light tanning to pages. Size: 6.5x4.5in / 16x11cm. 106pp. Weight: 140g.

First edition. x, 202 pp. Contents: Whither?, Lucy Gray; Jane Eyre, Julia, Electra, Dianeme; Nick Bottom; Sleeping Beauty; Lemuel Gulliver; Mistrust, Obstinate, Liar etc; La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Sleep and Death, A Doctor of Physic, Annabel Lee & Criseyde. Text clean throughout. Binding sound. Blue cloth boards with gilt lettering and decoration on spine. Small nicks in cloth at top and bottom of spine. Corners lightly rubbed. Overall condition VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED first edition, first issue. Decorated spine panel in gold, blue cloth covers, top edge plain, missing bracket on title page ("Walter Ramal". Signed on the free endpaper "Walter de la Mar, November 19 1904, With all good wishes". Slight wear with loss of cloth to corners, head and tail of spine. Slight toning throughout. X, 202pp.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Hardback, original quarter parchment, spine lettered and decorated in gilt. Publisher's gilt device stamped on front cover. In a marbled paper slipcase. 106pp. Frontispiece by Richard Doyle with tissue guard. 1st edition 1902. De La Mare's first book. Spine darkened, binding slightly marked and worn. Slipcase rubbed with small loss. Previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown. Scarce. (ar26).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition: First Printing. 106 pages: 5 x 7.5 in.: KB#010210: No Jacket As Issued. Book binding is spine and quarter cream paper with blue cloth boards (with gilt ship embossed on front cover) plus decorated gilt lettered spine. Top edge of page block is gilt. Book is protected in a custom brown cloth gilt-lettered clamshell book box. Copy has prior owner's bookplate (Oliver Brett) neatly affixed to front endpaper and a stamp on front flyleaf, p. 103, and rear endpaper of "College For Working Women", along with a "Bought Davis 1921 and K195" notation at the front. Otherwise, clamshell box, boards and pages are clean, unmarked (except as indicated), bright, tightly bound and sharp cornered. Has a tissue-protected frontispiece illustration about twenty dancing fairies by Richard Doyle, entitled "Under the Dock Leaves." This is Walter De La Mare's first book, a collection of poetry which he wrote under the pen name (pseudonym) of Walter Ramal. Scarce, Out Of Print, Book.

First edition of the author's first book, a notably fresh copy. Songs of Childhood is a collection of poems, some of which are aimed "directly at child readers, others recreate the state of childhood itself - to him always life's summit - its pure wonder, intuitions, solitary fantasy, and above all its readiness to see this world as part of another, no less real for being magical and spiritual" (ODNB). De La Mare's pseudonym of "Walter Ramal" was short-lived and he started publishing under his own name in 1904. Octavo. Sepia photogravure frontispiece by Walter L. Colls reproducing a drawing by Richard Doyle, with tissue guard. Original japon-backed light blue cloth ruled in gilt, publisher's device in gilt on front board, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Housed in a custom blue morocco-backed cloth slipcase and chemise. Early 20th-century bookplate of Benjamin Adams Burnett (d. 1934) of New York, described in his obituary as "a great lover of books [who] had made a collection of many rare volumes". Spine toned and rubbed at ends, head of front joint nicked, a little peripheral toning and couple of marks to cloth, light foxing to endpapers, contents clean. A very good copy indeed.

First Edition. Frontispiece by Richard Doyle Spine very slightly soiled and very light spotting to end-papers, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy; ownership signature on front free end-paper. Rare The author's first book. Original quarter parchment, spine lettered and decorated in gilt, gilt ruled pale blue linen sides with gilt publisher's device stamped on upper cover, top edge gilt.